Learning Analytics @ OLL

Jasper Ginn
17/10/2016

Core Activities



Learning Analytics

  • Support professors and practitioners in improving/optimizing/enhancing lesson materials by using a wide variety of data and tools.

    • OLL team
    • Professors
    • TA's

Example: Time-on-Task in Video's

Example: In-video actions

Example: Infographic

Example: Annual Report

Research

  • Research online learning together with a wide variety of researchers/faculties. Provide technical assistance to (pre)-process, analyze and store data.

    • Academic researchers
      • In-house
      • Outside researchers (reproducibility)
    • Coursera community

Papers

  • Van der Sluis, Frans, Jasper Ginn, and Tim Van der Zee. 2016. Explaining Student Behavior at Scale: The Influence of Video Complexity on Student Dwelling Time. Proceedings of the Third (2016) ACM Conference on Learning@Scale. ACM, 2016.

  • Van der Zee, T., Ginn, J.H., and Van der Sluis, F., 2016. Improving the instructional design quality of educational videos in MOOCs. Coursera Partner Conference – Research track

  • [Currently writing] From content, via behaviour, to learning: How video complexity interacts with student dwell time to explain learning outcomes.

  • [Proposal] Finding the optimal level of mental effort for interest in and learning from videos.

  • [Internal report] Melita Tarisa. Best Practices in Video Content Design for Increased Student Engagement and learning.

Data Security, Management, Privacy

  • Secure, persistent storage of OLL data.

    • Knowledge and advice on NL and EU legal frameworks in handling learner data.
    • Responsible dissemination of learner data
    • Reproducibility of research data

Architecture

Example: Shiny Dashboard I

Example: Shiny Dashboard II

Example: Data Management Policy

Tooling

  • Create open-source tools for the MOOC / Open Education community to help others who may not have expertise.

    • Formalize own research tools
      • Transparency
      • Reproducibility

Examples: GitHub tools



Example: MOOC dashboard